Usage of animals in experimental music

[Zeno Marx]

I have several tracks with recordings of Cicadas and Crickets in them, layered among other sounds. Let me know if anyone would like to hear them. Insects are one of my favorite subjects to document via tape.

'Tis the year for cicadas.  Either I've forgotten or never noticed, but it's interesting how they go completely quiet and then roar into a cacophony of [what I assume is] communication.  Then quiet.  Then roar.  Their shells littered everywhere.  It wouldn't take a whole lot to turn it into a cool wall of shimmering noise.

[THE RITA HN]

I've posted this elsewhere before, but here it is again:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGOzVfgjNK0

[Cementimental]

Some animal vocals on a track on my latest album: https://seagrave.bandcamp.com/track/lotssa-yella-knees

[Johann]

G*Park uses environmental sounds extensively, especially the bannedproduction tape corpse (on the banned production bandcamp page for those interested)...believe it's sheep in a field, one dead and many flies buzzing with occasional startling electronic interference.

Has anyone heard the Dieter Roth work with him and 12 dogs? I've been trying to track this down.

[Euro Trash Bazooka]

I like using various kinds of bullfrogs and whatnot in some recordings of mine. My cat has randomly appeared on them as well.

[WCrap]

Has anyone heard the Dieter Roth work with him and 12 dogs? I've been trying to track this down.

this is a 24h recording from a dog shelter with dozens of howling and barking dogs. a very depressing piece. i saw this as an installation with multiple speakers and with hundreds of photos taken by dieter mounted on the wall. you can only hear this when it is installed in an exhibition. it was never published.

[holy ghost]

There's a Stars of the Lid track (I believe on Tired Sounds) with a dog whimpering, which just happens to be the saddest sound in the world.....

[Cementimental]

I remember a lot of controversy on noise/experimental yahoo mailing lists back in the day over some anonymous CD-R of dying rats, something released by/related to Eugenics Council/Apop I think..?

[tiny_tove]

If I am not wrong, Blazen Y Sharp (the guys behind Genderless Kibbutz label), did a work with insects and worms... I really cannot recall the details but I think ithey recorded their interaction with cheese, a food they cannot digest properly... I am quite sure to have it somewhere...

[Zeno Marx]

Jeph Jerman has at least one album with ants.  Yannick Dauby has all kinds of albums at this point with frogs and who knows what else.  I think the GREAT Jgrzinich has recordings, or maybe only a video, with ants.  I'd be surprised if Seth Nehil, MNortham, and the rest of this group of contemporaries haven't at least dabbled in insect and animal field recording manipulations.

[isomer]

I've used samples of koalas, dingos, magpies and the awesome sounding weddell seal. If you didn't know they were animals you'd think you were listening to an AKS synth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CRBovMIvMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wVEqHOlYd4

[greylake]

Einstürzende Neubauten's Thirsty Animal 12":

"When I walked into the studio Blixa had his body miked up and they were punching him to get a bass drum beat. And the studio floor was covered with meat, and they had this dog they'd starved for three days with contact mics all over its stomach... and they were recording him eating the meat! It was really bizarre. I had to stand in the middle of this studio, the floor strewn with these bones and meat, and play guitar. It was quite a hard act to follow, believe me." - Rowland S. Howard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmRafp4QJ6E

I'm having trouble making out the starved dog in the mix.

[tiny_tove]

I've used samples of koalas, dingos, magpies and the awesome sounding weddell seal. If you didn't know they were animals you'd think you were listening to an AKS synth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CRBovMIvMI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wVEqHOlYd4

you lucky Australians, you have any sort of bizarre creature in the world that not only stings but also emits the weirdest noises

[Deadpriest]

Maybe being obvious but Merzbow uses distorted chicken sounds in Turmeric and Sha mo 3000, I think there are duck sounds on Bariken.